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metic

In antiquity, a Greek who chose to move and live alongside another citizen community. The metic population in Athens was large and often wealthy (many metics were involved in trade or industry), but had limited rights.
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I mean that the father grows accustomed to descend to the level of his sons and to fear them, and the son is on a level with his father, he having no respect or reverence for either of his parents; and this is his freedom, and metic is equal with the citizen and the citizen with the metic, and the stranger is quite as good as either.
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